Don Zimmer has spent more than six decades in professional baseball, and he’s seen plenty of technological advances along the way: chartered airplanes, electronic scoreboards and even replay review.

But the notion that a traditional paper ticket is no longer the only way to enter Tropicana Field left the Rays senior baseball advisor slightly flummoxed.

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In today’s Dugout, Don Zimmer confronts the reality of the Flex Pack.

The Dugout

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: guys I got the best idea for a prank

JackInTheBoxberger: tricking Erik Bedard into thinking he’s still got a shot in the Majors?

TheyllNeverBeliveau: Telling people we suddenly have a reliable offense!

EnnyGivenSunday: snay in peanobrittle can

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: nope nope and what, no, we’re gonna make an 83-year old baseball man believe he can’t see baseball anymore

JackInTheBoxberger: that sounds … kinda horrible actually

TheyllNeverBeliveau: God pulled that prank on my grandpa once

TheyllNeverBeliveau: he called it Alzheimer’s disease.

EnnyGivenSunday: snay go pop when he open can

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: just follow my lead

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ZimmerDownNow: /handwrites letter to grandson

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: oh hey Don hey what’s up

ZimmerDownNow: wull hello rhine just writin’ a letter to my grandson to thank him for the warmhearted birthday wishes, about to consult the world book encyclopedia to see how much it costs to mail a letter with three werther’s originals sealed up inside!

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: wanted to make sure you got one of these cards /hands Don a Sub Club card

ZimmerDownNow: fer subs?

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: no y’see Don we’ve moved into a 21st century cashless and paperless economy so we’re doing away with both money and paper

ZimmerDownNow: ooh … /stares down in confusion

EnnyGivenSunday: /snickers

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: showing this card is the only way you’ll be able to get into the park from now on. They have to see it because science.

ZimmerDownNow: no i don’t!! they know me!!

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: sorry Don that’s how science works now

TheyllNeverBeliveau: yeah without that you’ll have to sit out in the parking lot while we play baseball!

ZimmerDownNow: no i won’t! i won’t!

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: that card is called a “Flex Pack”

JackInTheBoxberger: Like the wrestler!

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: you don’t use a ticket and you don’t use money, you get into the park and buy all your food by showing the Flex Pack

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: we aren’t gonna have seats anymore, you’ll just put the Flex Pack on the ground and sit on it. We’re filling up the touch tank with a bunch of floating Flex Packs

ZimmerDownNow: i can get food whenever i want!

LeaveLoveBleedinInMyHanigan: nope, Flex Pack. Outside of the Flex Pack you have a 20% chance of survival.